Former UK work and pensions secretary Amber Rudd said she quit Boris Johnson's Cabinet last night because there was not enough evidence of planning for a deal on Brexit.
"I have not seen enough work going into to actually trying to get a deal. When I asked Number 10 for a summary of what the plan was for actually getting a deal, I was sent a one-page summary," she said. "You might expect in the balance between getting a deal and no-deal 50/50 in terms of work but it's not that, it's like 80% to 90% of government time going into preparing for no-deal and the absence of trying to get a deal has driven 21 of my colleagues to rebel, and I need to join them."Ms Rudd, in criticism of those MPs currently occupying cabinet positions, said Britain would have "left the EU by now" if they had voted for Theresa May's Brexit deal at the time.
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